This thesis examines the impact of international coercive policies on democratic opposition parties operating within ‘rogue’ states. Using Serbia between 1992 and 2000 as a case study, the aim of this research is to evaluate the impact of the international community’s coercion of Serbia on the effectiveness of the Serbian democratic opposition in their campaigns against the Milosevic regime. In order to explore this issue, the time period from 1992 to 2000 is broken down into five subperiods in each of which Serbia’s experience of international coercion differed in terms of its nature and/or extent. Within each of these sub-periods the issues of whether Serbia’s opposition parties held positions that differed from those of the Milosevic regime on issues that were of key international concern; the extent and nature of links between the Serbian democratic opposition and the international community; and the impact of international policy on the effectiveness of the democratic opposition in opposing the Milosevic regime is investigated. The findings of this research show that the positions of the democratic opposition parties were often closer to those of the international com m unity than were those of the Milosevic regime, and that for much of the time international coercion of Serbia undermined Serbia’s opposition in its efforts to oppose Milosevic.